I have a story about the last PO on my 67. I bought it off of Ebay, actually my mother took my insurance money from my last car, tossed in some more money and bought it while I was on vacation. The past owner said it was 85% restored. It has black vinyl seats, and the holes in it, he covered with electrical tape so you could not see it from the outside. He said there was only a small place with rust and no bondo, I just got quoted 1200 to get rid of the rust on the body and another 1000 for the floor panels that need replacing. The engine supposedly only had 1200 miles on it, it blew up 2000 miles later, and the transmission was brand new, it died after 4000 miles. He said he lowered the front suension it turns out he used a hack saw to cut the springs and did a horrible job. The carpet under the floor mats had a 6 inch hole in it and was molding. and the last one is he installed the alarm himself and it worked for a few weeks, it didn't go off when I opened the doors, only when I closed them. and the power cable for the alarm ran across the parking brake, I pulled it the other day and whoosh, a fire under the hood. and to think when I got picked up by the PO at the airport, he was just coming from church and his son who was the one that drove it was a minister and talked it up to me. I don't trust the church to begin with, but I thought he would be honest. There were so many other things to list, this was not 10% restored and I am rebuilding everything. But at least I will know it is perfect with receipts for the next owner who will be my grandson one day.
I am always suspicious when they call it a "302 Boss" versus a Boss 302--I will still tell them they are wrong though...
